Pakistan to allow Kashmiris to cross boundary
Pakistan’s president said today he would allow Kashmiris to cross the boundary with Indian-held territory to help in quake reconstruction efforts.
“We will allow every Kashmiri to come across the Line of Control to assist in the reconstruction effort,” President Gen Pervez Musharraf said at a news conference in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-held Kashmir.
The city was badly damaged in the October 8 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people, most of them in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir.
There was no immediate word from India on Musharraf’s proposal. India has sent some quake relief supplies to Pakistan in recent days.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947, and two of those wars were over Kashmir.
A militarised boundary, the Line of Control, divides the Himalayan region.
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